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ALAN ROULSTONE PUB ARTIST (1918-1989) |
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Publications
Alan Roulstone West Arms Llanarmon Boat Inn Erbistock Old Bull Horncastle Ye Olde Poppe Inne Tatworth Moon & Sixpence Tintern Old Mill Shipston-on-Stour victoria hotel llanbedr Lake Bank Hotel Blawith Kings Head Five Lanes Silver Plough Pitton New Inn Phillack Three Crowns Chagford Anchor Inn Bettws-y-Crwyn Bicknoller Inn Bicknoller Blue Pig Grantham Bell Inn Stilton Ye Olde Plough Bolnhurst Black Swan Much Dewchurch Sondes Arms Rockingham Black Bull Mkt Overton Bewicke Arms Hallaton Salusbury Arms Tremeirchion Cock Inn Sibson The Pub History Society |
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Another book in the same series was devoted to the Cotswolds, but no copy has come down, and it is unknown whether the splendid Old Mill at Shipston-on-Stour Gloucestershire featured in it or not. The manner in which the subject itself has been pushed back into the middle distance to allow prominence to a wall and bridge in the foreground is again typical of Roulstone's approach.
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A further drawing from 1954 is an interior of the attractive Victoria Hotel at Llanbedr Powys. Here two settles are prominently featured, as well as an inglenook and a principal beam; but the main focus is on a grandfather clock, and one wonders how many publicans today would run the risk of displaying such an object in a public room. Roulstone's drawing at least proves it was once there.
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Most of Roulstone's earlier drawings were done with a mapping-pen and India ink, but well before 1957, when he drew the Lake Bank Hotel at Blawith, Cumbria he had switched to fountain-pens (and was to switch again later to fibre-tips). This drawing was one of a large number made in the Lake District over a period of some months, and featured in one of two books devoted to the region entitled Travellers Rest Around the English Lakes.
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Michael Roulstone Publications
The Alan Roulstone collection © 2000 Michael Roulstone |
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